7th International Conference, Tokyo, 2019

ABOUT

Following the inaugural Deleuze Studies in Asia meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2013, the Deleuze/Guattari camp and conference has been hosted successfully in Manipal (India), Osaka (Japan), Seoul (Korea), Singapore and most recently Naga (The Philippines). It returns to the Japanese archipelago in 2019. This event remains the premier philosophical organ for Deleuze and Guattari studies in Asia and its transdisciplinary membership continues to contribute significantly to other Deleuze and Guattari gatherings across the world. With this in mind, and on the singularly precious occasion of Tokyo’s 2019 camp and conference, we shall continue the indefatigable spirit of former meetings to exchange ideas, to discuss and to think about Deleuze and Guattari in new and challenging ways.

All kindred open, serious and joyful thinkers are welcome, from whatever discipline for Deleuze and Guattari’s thought remains the only true and open contemporary philosophy.

In accordance with previous events, the summer school or camp will take place before the Deleuze / Guattari conference proper.

In a welcoming, supportive atmosphere, the camp will be held at the art space ‘3331 Arts Chiyoda’, where leading intellectuals and scholars regularly give lectures on philosophy, politics, cinema, art, psychoanalysis and medical science.

We are planning several extracurricular activities including a workshop on Noh theatre (classical Japanese drama), and a young artists’ exhibition inspired by Deleuze’s philosophy. This dual focus will reconstruct the old and new, high and low, young and old, in a deliberately affirmative, joyous and celebratory Deleuzian mode.

The conference proper will be held at University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, which remains a trailblazer of philosophy in the metropolis and beyond.

Here, global Deleuze experts have been invited to give keynotes and lectures, including the English translator of Levinas and Merleau-Ponty, Alphonso Lingis, whose deep and much-celebrated thought has developed a singular and inspiring Deleuze-inflected phenomenology.

The theme for the conference is ‘War Machine, Conflict, Coexistence’. Why? Because we live in a world where the concept ‘war machine’ has now become so miserably commonplace and anodyne. How? In two respects: 1) the contemporary globalized form of capitalism has overwhelmed national economies and; 2) terrorism has replaced traditional forms of state-war. As such, conflicts are so pervasive on a global scale yet often elude traditional social, political and economic schematics.

In the play of perceptible and imperceptible, how should or can we coexist in such a world? How does the work of Deleuze and Guattari assist this new relation? One problem arises. As the idea of coexistence is not explicitly explored in their philosophy, how can we respond to this conspicuous lacuna? Given this bottleneck of reason, it is exceedingly timely to think contemporary geo-political problems and ideas from the perspective of Deleuze and/or Guattari. Our task is to begin thinking again; to shed another dogmatic image of thought.

Given this crisis and amid such devastating conflict, we are asking conference delegates to think about the concept of coexistence in a Deleuzian way. We are in search for nothing less than a new paradigm or image of thought.

Yet in a deliberate sense, the 2019 Deleuze and Guattari event and project in Tokyo remains open to those not determined as ‘Deleuzians’ or ‘Guattarians’. In any event, we have never been Deleuzians and Guattarians. Faced with this provocative disavowal, we are inviting forms of non-philosophy to counter the sclerotic impulses of dogmatic thinking.

The committee of the 2019 Deleuze and Guattari in Asia conference wants our joint moment to be one for witnessing and understanding the multiple theoretical conflicts surrounding Deleuze/Guattari Studies.

We are not aiming for a communion of self-same herd thinking, another yeah saying for whatever absurd purpose, but rather a veritable explosion of difference.

As such, the continuous construction-reconstruction of the intellectual assemblage of the Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia Conference means that its membership is steadfastly not a parochial fanclub. It remains doggedly radical, global and Deleuzian through and through.

We are a gathering for discussing and thinking in a fundamental and rigorous sense, in the resplendent open and chaotic sense which the brilliance of Deleuze and Guattari’s joint philosophy demands.

We started accepting applications for CAMP. On the same day, We sent an email to everyone who applied for the conference. If you have not received it, please contact us at deleuzetokyo2019@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Exhibition: Between figure and contour

The 7th Deleuze/Guattari Studies in Asia Conference will be held in Tokyo. The event is composed of a summer school or “camp” and the actual conference. The director of the conference is philosopher Koichiro Kokubun.

Deleuze is a philosopher who had a significant impact on art and art theory. To present these resonances in art, there will be an exhibition of works inspired by Deleuze and/or Guattari by five young artists at the conference venue, 3331 Art Chiyoda in Akihabra, during the conference period.

Concept:

Deleuze and Guattari’s texts are read not only to expand discursive space but also to apply them to practice. In this exhibition, artists read a part of Deleuze and Guattari’s texts to proceed from reading and interpretation to the production of a work. The exhibition will showcase the works as well as short essays by the artists that explain the thought processes that they have gone through. The participating artists engage with diverse forms of expression including painting, video, installation, poetry, and workshops. This is an attempt to make a step forward towards the coming philosophy and art, starting with the creativity of young artists who respond to the growing breadth of research on Deleuze and Guattari.

CALL FOR PAPERS

THEME: War Machine, Conflict, Coexistence

The theme for the conference is ‘War Machine, Conflict, Coexistence’. Why? Because we live in a world where the concept ‘war machine’ has now become so miserably commonplace and anodyne. The cooptation and recuperation of the concept by the naysayers of reason threaten to deradicalize Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy. How? In two respects: 1) the contemporary globalized form of capitalism has overwhelmed national economies and; 2) terrorism has replaced traditional forms of state-war. As such, conflicts are pervasive on a global scale yet often elude traditional social, political and economic schematics.

In the play of perceptible and imperceptible, how should or can we coexist in such a world? What does it mean to think the world and coexistence within it. Are we without a world? Are we embroiled within toxic relations of an unworld. How does the work of Deleuze and Guattari assist this new relation? The conference aims to answer this question. Yet one problem arises. As the idea of coexistence is not explicitly explored in their philosophy, how can we respond to this conspicuous lacuna? Given this bottleneck of reason, it is exceedingly timely to think contemporary geo-political problems and ideas from the perspective of Deleuze and/or Guattari. Our task is to begin thinking again; to shed a dogmatic image of thought and to inspire a new comportment to the world. Given this crisis and amid such devastating conflict, we are asking conference delegates to think about the concept of coexistence in a specifically Deleuzian and Guattarian way. We are in search for nothing less than a new paradigm or image of thought. ​

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Monday, 31st December 2018Deadline extended to Monday, 14th January 2019
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Thank you all for applying!!

REGISTRATION

Conference

Conference registration includes lunch, coffee service and the welcome dinner (21 June). It also includes a one-year paper and online subscription to the Deleuze & Guattari Studies journal.
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Please note that your contact details will be passed on to Edinburgh University Press so they can process your journal subscription, mail you the printed journal and send you an online access token. Edinburgh University Press will hold your details for the purposes of processing your annual journal subscription. If in future, your contact details change or you do not want your details held by Edinburgh University Press, please make your request in writing to journals@eup.ed.ac.uk. You can also view Edinburgh University Press’s privacy policy at https://www.euppublishing.com/privacy-policy.

Early Bird Fee(~3/15)

Normal

Late(4/15~)

Student

¥20,000

Others

¥23,000

¥25,000

¥28,000

Your delegate fee includes a subscription to the quarterly journal,
Deleuze and Guattari Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press.
Please note that your contact details will be passed on to Edinburgh
University Press so they can process your journal subscription, mail
you the printed journal and send you an online access token. Edinburgh
University Press will hold your details for the purposes of processing
your annual journal subscription. If in future, your contact details
change or you do not want your details held by Edinburgh University
Press, please make your request in writing to journals@eup.ed.ac.uk.
You can also view Edinburgh University Press’s privacy policy at
https://www.euppublishing.com/privacy-policy.

Camp

Registration for the 7th Deleuze / Guattari Studies in Asia Camp, 17-19 June 2019. Camp registration includes lunch, coffee service and the gala dinner (19 June).

Early Bird Fee(~3/15)

Normal

Late(4/15~)

Student

¥10,000

Others

¥13,000

¥15,000

¥18,000

ACCOMMODATION

Thank you for your registration to the 7th Deleuze / Guattari Studies in Asia Conference.

We can offer specially priced accommodation for students (Yoyogi Olympic Center : 5500 JPY par night). If you are an undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral student or unwaged, and if you wish to stay there, please complete this form.